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Hot Topic: The US Airline Industry…Fight or Flight!?

By Greg Caskey January 18, 2018 Use this Hot Topic in the classroom!  Teacher and Student Guides. “It’s time to level…

Staff Spotlight – PC Kate Phuah

January 9, 2018 Staff Spotlight – Program Coordinator, Kate Phuah Meet Kate, an alumna of the 2015 Economics for Leaders…

Alumni Spotlight – Ryan Chan (Claremont ’08)

December 19, 2017 Each year Forbes selects ambitious visionaries in 20 different industries to make their list of the “30…

Tax Changes: Good Thing or Bad Thing?

December 13, 2017 Lately we have read about paying less taxes, more taxes, having more deductions, less deductions and of …

Staff Spotlight – Dr. Jamie Wagner

December 11, 2017 Here at FTE we LOVE economics and the professors that work our summer Economics for Leaders programs…

Recent Alumni Profile – Noelle Link

November 20, 2017 FTE Alumna, Noelle Link, is a current senior at Ravenwood High School in Brentwood Tennessee. In 2016,…

Teacher Alumni Spotlight – Tamela West

November 2, 2017 In 2012, I was an English, speech and drama teacher who had been teaching for about 25…

We Don’ Need No Stinkin’ MOOCS

August 18, 2017 At FTE we believe our online programs are better and more effective than MOOC offerings. Read below…

Staff Spotlight – PC, Alex Baker

June 16, 2017 At FTE our Program Coordinators (PC)s are an essential part to ensuring our student summer programs are…

How Do We Ensure the Ideas of a Free Society Are Passed On?

May 31, 2017 Young people do not look with awe or a sense of wonder at an iPhone, a computer,…

Summer Planning for the College Bound

This is my excerpt. It’s about the summer.

Recent Alumni Profile – Jillian Huels

March 24, 2017 This time last year Jillian Huels was reluctant to apply for FTE’s Economics for Leaders program. By…